[Pkg-octave-devel] m68k okay, arm not

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-02-28 09:29]:

> On 28-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> | The octave2.1_2.1.66-1 package was correctly built by the m68k build daemon
> | last night. The gcc/g++ version was the same as the last time it failed
> | (g++-3.3_1:3.3.5-8), so I suspect that what made the buildd succeed was the
> | change in the -O compiler flag from -O1 to -O0.  This was Dirk's suggestion.
> | Thanks Dirk!
> | 
> | [To JWE:] John, you might want to make this fix upstream for the m68k-linux
> | architecture.
> 
> I'd prefer to avoid embedding any more special compiler flags in the
> build scripts.  Why is -O0 needed?  Is that compiler bug?

You are probably right, it is better to get to the root of the problem.  I
even do not know whether the -O0 option was really what made the buildd
succeed.  Have you tried to compile Octave on m68k already?

-- 
Rafael